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... seeming sorely chauffed at his band, As chained Beare, whom cruell dogs do bait, With idle force did faine them to withstand, And often semblaunce made to scape out of their hand ... who does the comparing and the feigning? Does "As chained Beare" index the way the poet sees it or the way the enchanter plays it? Hamilton has aptly distinguished these ... it is Archimago who pretends to be "chauffed" and who plays the "chained Beare" and feigns idle force and thus performs a caricature of his role as a character ...
... seeming sorely chauffed at his band, As chained Beare, whom cruell dogs do bait, With idle force did faine them to withstand, And often semblaunce made to scape out of their hand ... who does the comparing and the feigning? Does "As chained Beare" index the way the poet sees it or the way the enchanter plays it? Hamilton has aptly distinguished these ... it is Archimago who pretends to be "chauffed" and who plays the "chained Beare" and feigns idle force and thus performs a caricature of his role as a character ...
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“But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)